Filing-device.



B. MoDONA-LD. FILING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1913.

Patented Aug. 11, 19M,

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B. M cPO/VAL 12 the following specification.

savanna ammonia; or moron, ONTARIO, CANADA.

FILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 191$.

Application filed May 17, 1913. serial in. 768,334.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it knoyvn that I, BEVERLY MCDONALD ofthe town of Picton, in the county oi Prince Edward, in the Province ofOntario, Canada have invented certain new and use- Tntprdvinents inFiling Devices, of which the followin is the specification.

My invention re ates toimprovements in filing devices, and the-object ofthe invention is to provide a simple means for filing check slips andthe like so that they can be readily and quickly gotten at, and b whichthe total amount of each may be easi y made visible without removing thes'li s from the file, and it consists essentially o a series of countercheck slip. containing pockets comprising a stifl' hard back piece and asoft ront piece, having a cut away ort-ion forming one side thereof,-andan in icating card having a receiving pocket integral with the backpiece and" extending upwardly from the upper end of such ba'ck piece, ashereinafter more particularly Figure 1. is a general pers ective view ofmy file showing a series 0 counter check slip ockets arranged therein.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspectivedetail of one of the counter check SllP pockets showing the indicatingcard withdrawn from its holding pocket.

'In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding. partsin each figure.

A is a receptacle of any suitable form provided with a support A of anysuitable form designed to support the counter check sli pockets in aninclined position within the receptacle. I

B are a SGIIQSIOIE indicating counter check' slip containing pockets,each pocket comrises a stiflf hard back piece 3' preferably ormedof thinsheet metal having an upturned lip B at its lower edge in which isinserted a soft front piece B 'of any suitable material such as linen,or'paper. -The-front'- referably cut-away in an in-' piece B is clineddirection from its} lower right hand corner as clearly shown in Fig. 3thereby clearly exhibiting the upper right hand corner of a countercheck slip 1. The counter check slips are ordinary counter check slipsarranged in any suitable way and provided at their right hand cornerwith a space 2 for cohtaining the amount to date, or in other words, thetotal amount owin by the customer after the bill indicated y thecorreexplained by 7 contain petty or transitory accounts.

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sponding counter .check slip has been totaled up.

B is an upward extension ;of the. back piece B provided with a turnedover lip B and lips B and B stamped up at each lower corner of suchextension piece.

C is an indicating card designed to be held in the pocket formed by thelips B, B", B", as indicated by dotted. lines 1n Fig. 3. I have shownthree of these indicating pockets in Fig. 1, namely, pockets indicatingA, B, C. Between these pockets are supplementary pockets E similar inform to the pockets above described and having indicating cards D onwhichis written the name of the customer. All the customers namesbeginning with A are arranged behind the indicating pocket containingthe letter A, and the customers names beginning with B are arrangedbehind the indicating pocket containing the letter B, and so onthroughout the alphabet. The pocket containers having indicating cards,having the customers names written'thereon are used for long standingaccounts. The pockets formed on the indicating containers may beutilized to will readily be understood from this description'that whenthe merchant desires to refer to any account, he may readily place hisfingers upon'the pocket containin such account, and withdraw it from thee.' If

he merely wishes to find out the amount owing by any customer, he simplyraises the corresponding pocket until the total amountindicated at 2(see Fig. 3) appears above the remaining pockets. He can then carry oversuch amount to the next check slip if desired or refer such amount tothe customer. To hold the pockets in place I preferably provide a spring3 bearing against the front pocket so as to hold the pockets What Iclaim as my invention is:

1. In a filing device, a check slip container comprising a. stifi' backpiece and a front piece formed of pliable material attached at thebottom 'to theback piece and having a cut away portion on one sidethereof, as and for the purpose specified.

2. In afil'ing device a receptacle, a series of check slip containerscomprising a stilt back piece and a pliable front piece and a visibleportion bearing an indicating letter and a series. of intermediatepockets also formed'with a .stiif back piece and a pliable front pieceand visibly bearing the cus tfiomers name, as and for the purpose speci-3. In a filingdevice, a check slip container comprising asheet metalback piece having an upturned lip at its lower edge and a flexible frontpiece secured in the lip and cut away at one side from the bottom in aninclined direction, as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a filing device a check slip container I comprising a sheet metalback piece having an upwardly extending portion having an overturnedlip; at its upper end and for wardly stamped lips in proximity to itslower corners and designed to receive an indicating card and afrontpiece formed of pliable material attached at the bottom to saidbackpiece and havinf'g a portion cut away from one side thereo as andforthe purpose specified,

BEVERLY MCDONALD.

